Blogs

Richard Leach, sales manager at Keepers Choice, looks at why feeding over the winter is more important than ever…

A redshank ringed by the GWCT Wetlands research team in the Avon Valley in 2021 has been re-sighted in Northwest France, near Lannion.

The question of how many woodcock might spend their winters in the UK may seem straightforward but is actually extremely difficult to answer. The fundamental reason is the secrecy of these birds, so that simple counting of those we may see in winter is not an accurate reflection of the number that might be present, camouflaged in the woods and active at night.

The EWWF Wildfire 2022 Conference in Belfast which I attended last week provided a similar belief that through constructive stakeholder engagement progress can be made.  But there is an added dimension in respect of wildfire – and that is the right time.  And that is now.

The first part in a series of blogs by Jodie Case. After winning the Outstanding Achievement Award this year, as voted for by her peers, Jodie takes us back through her year with the GWCT.

Meet the farmers of the Chalke Valley, Wiltshire to find out what they are doing to conserve their rare and precious chalk stream. Andrew, Ben and Matthew are members of the Chalke Valley Farmer Cluster and also the pioneering Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), supported by the GWCT.

One of the most important things to understand about woodcock in the UK is that there are two distinct groups which behave in different ways and are experiencing different fates - resident and migratory.

As our recent blogs have suggested there is a role for rewilding within our landscape – in some areas this could include a withdrawal from commercial farming activities – and, given we are largely a society of private landownership, we respect everyone’s right to manage their land as they wish.

The lucky winner will receive a pair of bespoke William Powell Sovereign shotguns worth over £14,000, a day's driven shooting and much more.

We are delighted to be able to send our culled rabbits to be used as feed for juvenile golden eagles at the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project (SSGEP). Remarkably, this project has been able to more than double the population of golden eagles in the south of Scotland since 2018.